Free and total bupivacaine plasma concentrations after continuous epidural anaesthesia in infants and children

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 473-478

  Luz, G ^a   Wieser, Ch ^a   Innerhofer, P ^a   Frischhut, B ^a   Ulmer, H ^a   Benzer, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia; Bupivacaine; Epidural

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE;

AGE; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; EPIDURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HUMAN; INFANT; IRRITABILITY; NERVOUSNESS; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PHARMACODYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BUPIVACAINE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; REFERENCE VALUES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031756702     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.1998.00285.x     Document Type: Article

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